True or False: Accumulating technical debt (rework created by technical short-cuts and brittle or outdated legacy applications) has the potential to impact delivery of value to the customer/user.
A. True
B. False

One of the newest and least experienced Scrum Teams in your organization has 7 members: 3 are in London (UK), 1 is in Paris (FR), and 3 are in Mumbai (IN). What outcome would you expect?
(choose the best answer)
A. Having team members in multiple locations actually increases productivity because the work can “follow the sun”.
B. The team will likely need help with communication and knowledge sharing challenges.
C. Each location should have an on-site Scrum Master.
D. The cost of delivering the product will be significantly lower than if all team members were together in London (UK).

You manage a product development organization. You are looking at the progress reports from a number of Scrum Teams in your organization, when you notice that while most teams have a velocity of 35-40 story points per Sprint, one team consistently delivers only 15-20 per Sprint. Is this a cause for concern?
(choose the best answer)
A. Yes, this is cause for concern – the Product Owner for the team in question is not pushing the team hard enough.
B. Yes, this is a cause for concern – the team in question has not calibrated their story points with the rest of the teams.
C. No, this is not cause for concern – velocity is not a measurement of team performance.
D. Yes, this is a cause for concern – the team in question is performing worse than the rest.
E. No, this is not cause for concern – the team in question will probably increase their velocity over time.
F. Yes, this is cause for concern – the Scrum Master for this team is not making this team as productive as the others.

You manage a product development organization. Some of your teams determine that they need access to a “production-like” test environment so that they can assess the scalability of their application as they build it. Current processes stipulate that expensive “production-like” test environments are only available as part of final application acceptance testing, just prior to releasing the application to production. Earlier access is not possible because other teams are using the pre-production test environments. Which two of the following strategies would you pursue?
(choose the two best answers)
A. Tell the teams to do their best with their current test environment, simulating production as much as possible. Then release the product and let the customer determine if the product can scale.
B. You help them find someone who can help them with setting up testing and simulation software that can partially emulate the “production-like” test environment.
C. They should add additional time to the release schedule to account for the additional testing and rework the team will have to do when they find defects late in the delivery cycle. Set stakeholder expectations accordingly.
D. You work with the teams to develop a business case for procuring or gaining access to the necessary environment for validating the scalability of the product.

True or False: Agile product delivery approaches help a team manage risk more effectively than a traditional approach.
A. True
B. False

You manage a product delivery organization. Your manager asks you to create a plan for the next fiscal year describing what will be delivered. What is the best way to proceed?
(choose the best answer)
A. Use your knowledge to make the plan and later negotiate its implementation with the Scrum Team.
B. Ask each Scrum Team to estimate the current backlog and make a plan against the story points previously delivered. Then normalize Story Points across teams to combine the estimates.
C. Work with specialists from each team to build an estimated backlog that you can translate into a Gantt chart.
D. Work with the Product Owner(s) to analyze current delivery capabilities against demand, then use that data to build a probabilistic forecast that serves to illustrate what might be achieved.